Arena Thread

[Ishido]

Not sure if I'm the only one who likes to seriously arena, but here is a thread to discuss it.

Copy/paste from Emmeraude on EJ, prices of PvP gear.

From the PvP Venders in major cities(Stormwind/Orgrimmar):

Savage Gladiator Sets(5-piece Rare ilvl 200, Tier 1 PvP Gear)
Chest/Legs/Helm: 60,000 Honor
Shoulders/Gloves: 50,000 Honor
No Rating Requirements

Hateful Gladiator Items(Misc Epic ilvl 200 Tier 2 PvP Gear)
Boots/Belt/PvP Trinket: 49,600 Honor
Neck/Cloak/Ring: 38,000 Honor
Bracers: 31,600 Honor
No Rating Requirements

Deadly Gladiator Items(Misc Epic ilvl 213 Tier 3 PvP Gear)
Boots/Belt/Offensive PvP Trinkets(+Whatever/Use: Health Boast): 60,200 Honor
Neck/Cloak/Ring: 47,400 Honor
Bracers: 39,400 Honor

Rating Requirements on Misc Deadly Gear:
Trinkets 1800
Cloak: 1750
Boots: 1720
Ring: 1690
Bracers: 1660
Belt: 1630
Neck: 1600

From Emblems of Heroism/Valor in Dalaran:

Savage Gladiator Sets(5-piece Rare ilvl 200, Tier 1 PvP Gear)
Chest/Legs/Helm: 45 Badges of Heroism
Shoulders/Gloves: 30 Badges of Heroism
No Rating Requirements

Hateful Gladiator Items(5-piece Epic ilvl 200 Tier 2 PvP Gear)
Chest/Legs/Helm: 45 Badges of Valor
Shoulders/Gloves: 30 Badges of Valor
No Rating Requirements

From Arena Vendors in the Dalaran Sewers:

Savage Gladiator Sets(5-piece Rare ilvl 200, Tier 1 PvP Gear)
Chest/Legs/Helm: 12,000 Honor, 350 Arena Points
Shoulders: 9,600 Honor, 275 Arena Points
Gloves: 7,200 Honor, 200 Arena Points
No Rating Requirements

Hateful Gladiator Items(5-piece Epic ilvl 200 Tier 2 PvP Gear)
Chest/Legs/Helm: 12,000 Honor, 700 Arena Points
Shoulders: 9,600 Honor, 550 Arena Points
Gloves: 7,200 Honor, 400 Arena Points

Rating Requirements on Hateful Gear:
Gloves: 1615
Legs: 1645
Chest: 1675
Helm: 1735
Shoulders: 1775

Deadly Gladiator Items(Epic ilvl 213 Tier 3 PvP Gear)
Chest/Legs/Helm: 2,250 Arena Points
Shoulders: 1,800 Arena Points
Gloves: 1,350 Arena Points
Off-Hand/One Hand Fast Weapons/Caster: 1,350 Arena Points
Main-Hand/One-Handed Slow/Caster: 3,150 Arena Points
2-Handers/Ranged: 4,500
Shields: 2,250
Totem/Idol/Relic/Sigil: 1,200

Rating Requirements on Deadly Gear:
Gloves: 1850
Legs: 1910
Chest: 1970
Helm: 2090
Shoulders: 2150
Everything Else: 2030

[Correction]

2150 rating for shoulders is rough...

[Quicklet]

So do you need rating to wear, or just to purchase?

[Gulkeeva]

Same as S4 I'd imagine!

Kinda funny seeing people getting 1550 rating as an achievement.. O_o

[Boyiee]

For once, it feels good to be a rogue and not a Prot pally.

For once, it sucks being a rogue since all my typical partners are already teamed up with DK's.

[Correction]

DK teams are going to be retarded sick in S5. Snares, multiple ways to stop spells, gobs of HP/defense, can't be manadrained to reduce their spell effectiveness, unkitable.

Yeah, that's fun to play against.

[Eaglestrike]

DK teams are going to be retarded sick in S5. Snares, multiple ways to stop spells, gobs of HP/defense, can't be manadrained to reduce their spell effectiveness, unkitable.

Yeah, that's fun to play against.

I wonder how well a double prot pally team would do against all these DK's. I owned one of my guilds best DK's in a duel without needing much effort. Would be funny to see...

[Osede]

So do you need rating to wear, or just to purchase?

Only need for purchase. The only complain for me might be these gear can be easily obtain from wintergasp raid. Which some ppl reported that they saw a person with 3-4 peices deadly right now

[Ishido]

Only need for purchase. The only complain for me might be these gear can be easily obtain from wintergasp raid. Which some ppl reported that they saw a person with 3-4 peices deadly right now

Requires incredible luck to have more than 1 piece of deadly right now, especially if you have people competing with you for drops.

[Naramaska]

I wonder how well a double prot pally team would do against all these DK's. I owned one of my guilds best DK's in a duel without needing much effort. Would be funny to see...

Most DK's are utterly retarded when it comes to dueling and don't know what to do if you're a ranged DPS class and can get away from their initial DG/CoI combo.

[Boyiee]

Requires incredible luck to have more than 1 piece of deadly right now, especially if you have people competing with you for drops.

Agreed, even in 10mans, I haven't seen a single rogue drop. In the last wg raid's I've done, I think I've seen priest twice, paladin once, and a warlock - that's it. People with 3+ pieces, they deserve those pieces if they got that many to drop and won the rolls.

[Kurp]

There's nothing quite like being killed in 3 seconds or less from stealth.

Oh, hello there 7500 Eviscerate off of a god knows how much double Mutilate! Nice to meet you 8500 Ferocious Bite!

[Arcana]

Might i be the only one who thinks that the new PVP sets are horrible looking? paladin especially, it looks like a crafted armour set and the previous armour sets havn't been completely horrible but are they just getting really plain and boring with pvp armour sets to disinguish less between the sets or running out of ideas for the styles of armour.

[Boyiee]

The last good pvp set to me was the s3 that resembled t6... t6 looked BA on tons of classes.

[Korietsu]

Agreed, even in 10mans, I haven't seen a single rogue drop. In the last wg raid's I've done, I think I've seen priest twice, paladin once, and a warlock - that's it. People with 3+ pieces, they deserve those pieces if they got that many to drop and won the rolls.

Seen 8 priest drops, 10DK drops, 3 Lock drops, one rogue, zero other classes.

[Naramaska]

Seen 8 priest drops, 10DK drops, 3 Lock drops, one rogue, zero other classes.

Literally every Archavon for us has been Rogue, DK, or Shaman. None of it is needed

[Correction]

So who wants to make a 5v5 all HaT rogue team?

[aers]

Might i be the only one who thinks that the new PVP sets are horrible looking? paladin especially, it looks like a crafted armour set and the previous armour sets havn't been completely horrible but are they just getting really plain and boring with pvp armour sets to disinguish less between the sets or running out of ideas for the styles of armour.

it has to do with 5000 year old dragon nipples.

[aurik]

Frontloaded damage teams seem to be ridiculously op now. 15k armor, 18k hp and i still go down in seconds. Non-instant CC seems too slow to make a difference.

[synistar]

Even running with 550 resil does nothing to stop the burst damage of a druid + Rogue who can time their maim/CS or garrote to just perma stun me for 21.6k hp worth of damage in 6 seconds. Not even pain suppression and max stack of focused will can save me. Then I calculated out that 400 resil @ 70 = 800+ resil @ 80. Time to farm more pvp blues!